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His first stage was Arqua; then Ferrara, where he was inspired, by a sight of the Italian poet's prison, with the Lament of Tasso; the next, Florence, where he describes himself as drunk with the beauty of the galleries.
Petrarch's house in Arqua; Tasso's supposed prison in Ferrara; Shakespeare's house in Stratford, with his chair; Goethe's house in Weimar, with its furniture; Kant's old hat; the autographs of great men; these things are gaped at with interest and awe by many who have never read their works. They cannot do anything more than just gape.
As they threaded the green windings of vine covered hills, these gradually assumed a bolder outline, and, rising in separate cones, formed a sylvan amphitheatre round the lovely village of Arqua. The road made an abrupt ascent to the Fontana Petrarca. A large ruined arch spanned a fine spring, that rushes down the green slope. In the church-yard, on the right, is the tomb of Petrarch.
Browning made him, after the first excitement of delight, grow nervous and dispirited. They hastened away to Padua, drove to Arqua, "for Petrarch's sake," passed through Brescia in a flood of white moonlight, and having reached Milan climbed the invalid of Wimpole Street and her husband to the topmost point of the cathedral.
'I know not why, I always associate seclusion with unhappiness. Venetia remembered Cherbury. Their life at Cherbury was like the life of the German at Arquâ. A chance visitor to Cherbury in their absence, viewing the beautiful residence and the fair domain, and listening to the tales which they well might hear of all her mother's grace and goodness, might perhaps too envy its happy occupiers.
Sixteen years later I slept at Arqua, where Petrarch died, and his house still remains. The likeness between the two situations was astonishing, for from Petrarch's study at Arqua a rock can be seen similar to that which may be viewed at Vaucluse; this was the residence of Madonna Laura. "Let us go there," said I, "it is not far off."
If the signora would only wait, we expect the master home to-night or to-morrow, and he would be glad to see her. 'We cannot wait, my friend, said Lady Annabel, rewarding the guide; 'but you will thank your master in our names, for the kindness we have experienced. You are all happy in such a friend. 'I must write my name in Petrarch's house, said Venetia. 'Adieu, happy Arquâ!
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the Due d'Aumale were there. July 31st. Left London for Germany. By Ostend and Cologne to Wiesbaden, where the Boothbys and Hathertons were. Then to Nuremberg, Munich, Salzburg, and through the Tyrol to Venice. Stayed there till the 24th. August 25th. Went to Arqua to see Petrarch's house and tomb. Milan; Italian lakes. Back over the St. Gothard, Lucerne, Paris.
'Your mother, darling; where is your mother? said Herbert, looking, if possible, paler than he was wont. She was at Arquâ with me, and on the lake for months, but where we are now, I cannot say. If I could only remember where we are now, she added with earnestness, and with a struggle to collect herself, 'I should know everything. 'This is Rovigo, my child, the inn of Rovigo.
How often have we gleaned from those beauteous objects around, but aliment to our morbid griefs; and turning towards the gurgling fountain of Ammonati, and gazing on its trickling waters, have vainly tried to arrest our trickling tears! Argua. "There is a tomb in Arqua: rear'd in air, Pillar'd in their sarcophagus, repose The bones of Laura's lover." "I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs."
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